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Connecticut started with an innovation, called the "Constitution State" because it formed a formal government with what some say is the first ever such charter – the Fundamental Orders – in the late 1630s. As the "Provision State," it supplied a newborn nation with much-needed weaponry for the Continental forces during the Revolutionary War, and later, the Civil War. An unflattering explanation for the "Nutmeg State" moniker is that its people were so crafty and shrewd that they made and sold fraudulent wooden nutmegs to replace the spicy tree seed, according to George Earlie Shankle's book "State Names, Flags, Seals, Songs, Birds,...

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Connecticut started with an innovation, called the "Constitution State" because it formed a formal government with what some say is the first ever such charter – the Fundamental Orders – in the late 1630s.
As the "Provision State," it...

BOSTON (AP) — The public is getting its first glimpse inside a time capsule dating to 1795 and believed placed by Samuel Adams and other Revolutionary War figures.
Officials already have a good idea of the contents, which will be displayed Tuesday...

The birth of The Connecticut Courant in 1764 was the fortunate outcome of Thomas Green's misfortune, when the master printer suddenly found himself fired by Benjamin Franklin.
A fourth-generation printer, Green had been publishing the state's first...

A proposed national memorial to the thousands of African Americans who fought in the American Revolution won crucial federal approval Sept. 11, a key step for a project that began 30 years ago with a Plainville woman's struggle to join the Daughters of...

Albert Lockwood of Jewett City doesn't need a history book to explain what led to the Battle of the Bulge. He was there to see it firsthand, serving in General Patton's Third Army in Luxembourg as a demolition man seven decades ago."Hitler put...

Freezing cold, stricken with smallpox and under attack from enemy ships in a foreign land, a regiment of American soldiers fled their encampment in Deschambault, Canada, early on the morning of May 7, 1776.
Under the command of Col. Charles Burrall,...

"Arrived at Bunker Hill and commenced building a fort … were not discovered until the approach of daylight, when a British cannonade and bombardment commenced … completed the fort about 12 o'clock. It was a poor one ... but better than none. In the...

There's a saying among the veterans at the John Maciolek American Legion Post 154 in Enfield."One of the sayings of the American Legion is, 'We're still serving,'" said Post Commander Lucien Lefevre. "Even though we are out of our...

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I'm not sure why I have avoided Cathedral Pines over the years. Maybe it was knowing that 25 years ago a trio of tornadoes devastated the grove of white pines in Cornwall that dated back to the Revolutionary War and were as close...

Never before have we lived in an era where knowledge is as easily accessible.
Arguments in restaurants about which actor starred in which movie now end abruptly with a few taps on a smart phone. Print encyclopedias are obsolete.
Nevertheless, despite...

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In February 2011, delirious and near-disbelieving Egyptians in the capital’s Tahrir Square danced and sang as they welcomed the fall of a dictator who had maintained iron control of this ancient land for the entire life span of many in the crowd.
But...

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To enact the burn — an elaborate, fiery TV stunt — a twentysomething actress, caked in black witch makeup that took six...

The British came and never left. That's the premise of ABC's planned alternate-history series "The Thirteen."
Set in contemporary America, the show imagines what would have happened if the colonists had lost the Revolutionary War and were...